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Sally Ride

" Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. "

Mission , Space

" For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. "

Time

" After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong. "

Time , Wrong , Space , Safety

" All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. "

Time , Wrong , Space , Safety

" Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine. "

Tennis

" But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. "

Space

" But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth. "

Earth

" My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. "

Mission , Physics

" Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same. "

Practice

" No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. "

Accidents , Space

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